| Over the course of its 25 years of
activity, the Consortium has demonstrated great flexibility
in the ways it has consolidated its working relationships
with its members. During this period, the SME sector has
embraced radical changes in the marketplace with remarkable
dynamism and sensitivity, and the Consortium has responded
pro-actively to the evolving needs of its members by continuously
updating its services portfolio and delivering ever greater
advantages in a sustained effort to provide highly specialized
support services. Following through
on a process that had as its starting point the basic
activity of exporting finished products, the member
companies – having transformed their businesses
through ambitious internationalization initiatives –
are now in what may be termed the globalization phase.
25 years ago, members hoping to break into overseas
markets would typically need no more than relatively
low-level linguistic and logistical support. Today,
not only are those same members now importing materials,
processing them and re-exporting them as finished or
semi-finished products, they are also signing high-level
international contracts with suppliers and distributors
across the world and even entering into innovative joint-ventures
with foreign partners.
Such is the nature of the market to
which the Consortium is required to cater in the 21st
century.
The Consortium represents a valuable
forum for its members, a centralized resource facilitating
the co-ordination of communal projects that would be beyond
the reach of individual members. The Poliexport Consortium
helps to orchestrate, promote and support its members
in two different ways:
first,
it works to resolve specific problems faced by individual
member companies, offering them a comprehensive range
of services encompassing everything from linguistic
provision through market research all the way to assistance
in establishing joint-ventures with overseas companies;
second,
it promotes the collective interests of companies within
the industries in which its members operate, helping to
ensure that export markets across the world are opened
up as fully as possible for the benefit of all concerned.
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